10 Key Features of Leadership

1. Unshakeable faith in life. Optimism. Solution-focus, humour. Humility with dignity.

2. Excitement of the human potential. Inspires human growth in people around her.

3. Systems Intelligence. Holistic ability. Realizing the interactive uplifting possibilities. Small change, big momentum. Perceiving the subtle interconnections, systems that support wise actions.

4. Self Leadership. Integrity. Doing what is right. Personal example. Unpretending presence.

5. Social Impact. Generates trust, for people to tune in, connect with and realize what is best in them. Cutting through ranks. Vulnerable, big yet human. Fairness. Sensitivity, emotional intelligence. Observant of people. Setting limits. Rightmindedness. By-your-sideness.

6. Target setting. Setting the goals. Making clear what is expected of each. Courageously and with prudence, reaching out.

7. Conceptual Ability. Reading the field, conceptualizing the territory for self and others. Coping intellectually in order to cope in a concrete way. Sustaining a common vocabulary, renewing the story base, grasping with conceptual clarity the fundamentals and the immediately urgent.

8. Handling Brilliance. Disagreeing without being disagreeable. Open agenda, demanding the same from all. No nonsense, no bullshit, no badmouthing, no games, no politics, no intrigue. Solution focus, reasoning without downplay. Dialogue skills. Balance of judgement, balance of self. Ability to change rhythm and approach.

9. Independent Thinking. Imagination. Inquiry mode. Alternatives, new perspectives. Reading beyond the obvious. A break-through insight mentality. Visionary. Urge to know the truth. Humbleness in the face of the paradoxes of leadership.

10. A star, primarily the space.